Creepy Mind Reading Technology: "Big Brother in your Head"

What most people thought to be the last bastion of privacy in today’s world – the mind – are likely going to be quite disturbed to know that a new company, Veritas Scientific, claims that they are developing technology which “will invade that.”

This technology is what Discovery called “a mind-reading helmet” designed to measure the brain activity of subjects via electroencephalogram (EEG) while flashing potentially familiar images across the visor.

Unsurprisingly, Veritas Scientific has chosen to go after the most lucrative market: the U.S. military. When you’re dealing with the military, you’re dealing with a market with never ending demand and at times a complete disregard for even the most essential of considerations like the functionality of products being purchased.

Eric Elbot, CEO of Veritas “Certainly it’s a potential tool for evil. If only the government has this device, it would be extremely dangerous.”

Still, if you're ever falsely accused of a crime, but able to prove you're innocence is a good thing.

Could it be rigged to make you look guilty? Sure, but if that's going to happen you're dealing with a whole different set of problems anyway. (They'll frame you if they want to at that point, technology or not.)

Still, if you're ever falsely accused of a crime, but able to prove you're innocence is a good thing.

Could it be rigged to make you look guilty? Sure, but if that's going to happen you're dealing with a whole different set of problems anyway. (They'll frame you if they want to at that point, technology or not.)

So for all the wrongly accused, it could be a godsend.

Quoting: Anonymous Coward 1071414

Excellent point. Lie detectors rely on biometric readings and would become obsolete.